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06-16-09, 12:31 PM #1you're in Stage 2 Water Restrictions and...
...you still see ass holes watering with their sprinkler system at noon.
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And wouldn't you know it? The SAWS people are having "technical difficulties" and we can't get a hold of anyone to report this.
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06-16-09, 12:38 PM #2Re: you're in Stage 2 Water Restrictions and...
That's like the two churches up the street from us... they left their sprinkler systems on after the first freeze. We ended up having a solid sheet of ice on one of the two lanes of south bound traffic. I left two messages with our Water & Public Utility people... no response. Finally I called the non-emergency number for the city police and reported it as a hazard. A road crew was out there within the hour salting the 2+ block patch of ice.
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06-16-09, 12:42 PM #4
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What does "stage 2 water restriction" mean? I assume you can only water on certain days in the evenings, right? If so, that's pretty lame... It annoys me when people water during the day either way. What a waste.
I always thought Texas had an abundance of water though. Doesn't the humidity come from a swampy environment?
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06-16-09, 12:44 PM #5Re: you're in Stage 2 Water Restrictions and...
Yeah. I love my sprinkler system, but I also spend quite a bit of time in care and feeding to ensure that sprinkler heads are all in working order and that my schedule is during the optimal watering times. Most folks can't be bothered. I report businesses and residences that water during the 10am - 6pm time period that is verboten when under watering restrictions. Never seems to do any good, but at least I feel a little better.
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06-16-09, 12:47 PM #7Re: you're in Stage 2 Water Restrictions and...
Originally Posted by QuickLightning
It's a myth that Texas is humid. Along the coast, yes. Elsewhere... notsomuch. 'humid' in Dallas is anything over 50% humdity. Growing up in the mid-atlantic in a house with no A/C during the summer... I would have killed for 50% humidity. Days of 90 degree heat and 90% humidity were the norm.
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06-16-09, 12:49 PM #8Re: you're in Stage 2 Water Restrictions and...
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06-16-09, 12:53 PM #9
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Go and pull their electric meter. That will fix their little wagon.
I'm not usually a big fan of sprinkler bans....they have them here,but about 90% of the time they are bs. However....watering in the middle of the day is about the dumbest thing you can do....evaporation? They could have just as easily set it up to run in the middle of the night to at least get the most efficient use of the water. If the drought is that bad down there...they shouldn't be watering at all.
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06-16-09, 12:55 PM #10Re: you're in Stage 2 Water Restrictions and...
Originally Posted by QuickLightning
And Wile is right. We are dry. It can get "humid" according to the weather people, but we're really dry as fuck right now. And Texas is so huge, different parts experience different degrees of humidity and droughts.
And stage 2 for us is having our aquifer below 650ft now, stage one starts are 660 ft. Stage 3 hits at 640 which some officials are saying we might reach this year...:3
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